Giants in the Earth
Translated by Lincoln Colcord
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The opening
I. Toward the Sunset
THE LAND-TAKING
BRIGHT, clear sky over a plain so wide that the rim of the heavens cut down on it around the entire horizon.... Bright, clear sky, to-day, to-morrow, and for all time to come.
... And sun! And still more sun! It set the heavens afire every morning; it grew with the day to quivering golden light—then softened into all the shades of red and purple as evening fell.... Pure colour everywhere. A gust of wind, sweeping across the plain, threw into life waves of yellow and blue and green. Now and then a dead black wave would race over the scene ... a cloud’s gliding shadow ... now and then....
It was late afternoon. A small caravan was pushing its way through the tall grass. The track that it left behind was like the wake of a boat—except that instead of widening out astern it closed in again.
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About this edition
- The words
- Lincoln Colcord's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license, in 3 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 2 places
- The closing line "END OF BOOK I" (a printed closing line such as "End of volume I")
- The closing line "THE END" (a printed closing line such as "End of volume I")
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places